There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but…
Swaggart’s calls for a return to conservative Christian norms live on in today’s world of tradwives, limited access…
Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students…
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
The Seven Mountain Mandate calls on Christians to gain influence, or ‘take dominion,’ over seven key areas of culture:…
Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture…
A scholar who worked with him for decades observes that what mattered to Moyers was not how close you were to power, but…
SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases…
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.
Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her…
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held…
Amid national truth and reconciliation processes, Scandinavian churches are taking stock of their past policies toward the…
Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.
Pop culture about the ‘trial of the century’ reflected broader cultural rifts.
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or the CREC, has a highly patriarchal and conservative interpretation of…
A scholar of extremism writes that the use of the term often obscures deeper societal issues such as rising political violence…
Young writers in Germany are challenging one-dimensional stereotypes about Jewish and Muslim identities.
AI avatars of dead people are teaching courses and testifying in court. Even with the best of intentions, the emerging practice…
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war, some Jewish students have been vocal about support for…
AI has the potential to help prevent and detect abuse, but only if it avoids bias and is sensitive toward traumatized people’s…